Break down silos within your academic enterprise and turn institutional planning into daily actions! With our Managing the Academic Enterprise (MAE) framework, leaders, faculty, and staff across institutions are building a shared vocabulary and collective understanding of academic operations. By using actionable data, MAE is helping institutions like yours understand financial health, its highest-impact challenges, and best practices that can advance your institution's mission and improve students' Degree Velocity ™ and time to completion.
Learn more about Managing the Academic Enterprise from our founder and CEO, Tom Shaver, and Chief Strategy Officer, Sarah Collins in the video below. Then, discover each pillar and resources to help you.
"The framework is a continuous improvement model that coordinates the work and cycle of the academic calendar: planning, scheduling, and measuring. The measured output provides the feedback you need to continue making progress on the following semesters in each area of your work."- Sarah Collins, Chief Strategy Officer at Ad Astra
After exploring the pillars below, dive into the one that aligns with your institution's goal by clicking the "Discover More" button.
By analyzing leading indicators of graduation rates like momentum year, Degree Velocity™, or productive credit load, leaders can understand the rate at which individuals and cohorts of students are progressing toward degree completion. This allows for actionable, data-informed interventions.
Remove barriers to student progress by digitizing and analyzing your pathways! By leveraging data to understand the health of your programs, you will be able to distinguish and model the impact of course choice and course sharing in your pathways.
Reinforce best practices at your institution that support continuous improvement through integrated scheduling and calendaring solutions. These solutions will help you further define institutional policies and structural building blocks that support efficient and student-aligned resource allocation.
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Ad Astra is higher education’s solution partner in managing the academic enterprise. Partnering with more than 500 colleges, universities, and systems nationwide, Ad Astra helps improve stewardship of instructional resources, streamline student access to courses, and accelerate student completions.